Second April / by Edna St. Vincent Millay [electronic resource]

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Second April / by Edna St. Vincent Millay [electronic resource]
Author
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950
Publication
New York: Harper & Brothers
1921
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Page 54

THE DEATH OF AUTUMN

WHEN reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes, And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind Like aged warriors westward, tragic, thinned Of half their tribe, and over the flattened rushes, Stripped of its secret, open, stark and bleak, Blackens afar the half-forgotten creek, — Then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushes My heart. I know that Beauty must ail and die, And will be born again, —but ah, to see Beauty stiflened, staring up at the sky! Oh, Autumn! Autumn! —What is the Spring to me?
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